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KeyUp on iPhone

Today, KeyUp on iPhone is the web app in Safari. Native iPhone and Apple Watch apps come soon, through TestFlight.

Today you use KeyUp on iPhone in Safari, with the same four tabs and talk button as the Android app. Native iPhone and Apple Watch apps are in active development. They will be available through TestFlight, Apple’s beta app, and the waitlist gets an email the day they are ready.

Today: KeyUp in Safari

iPhone

  1. Open the web app link from your KeyUp email in Safari, and sign in or create an account.
  2. Add it to your Home Screen so it opens full screen and can send notifications. See Add KeyUp to your Home Screen.
  3. Keep KeyUp open in front while you want to hear and talk.
  4. Turn on notifications from the Home Screen app. See Turn on notifications on iPhone.
The web app’s Talk tab on iPhone in dark mode: Riverside Crew, the #dispatch card with three people, a Mic off button, the Hold, Tap, Open mic switch and an iPhone note.
The web app on iPhone.
The Talk tab on iPhone with two cards: what works on iPhone, and Add KeyUp to your Home Screen with Show me how.
The Home Screen card.

Coming soon: the native iPhone app

The native iPhone app is in active development, and so is the Apple Watch app. They will be available through TestFlight, Apple’s beta app, and the waitlist gets an email the day they are ready. They are not in the App Store. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when they’re out. Meanwhile, use KeyUp in Safari.

iPhone

  1. Talk: Hold, Tap or Open mic. Also listen to a second room. Replay and Missed talks.
  2. Rooms and Spaces: full room and Space settings, and moderation. Pinned notes, Ask to join and While you were away.
  3. Quiet: Quiet, Mute and Hours.
  4. Messages and friends: room chat and direct messages, with photos and voice notes. Friends. Invitations and friend requests alert you while KeyUp is open, and People has an Invitations list (it says No invitations when there are none).
  5. Calls: voice calls and private (end-to-end encrypted) calls, with call waiting, Move call here and Recent calls.
  6. Help and AI: Call for help (send it, and a loud alarm when KeyUp is open). Ask AI, with answers read aloud. History with Replay and transcripts.
  7. Make it yours: themes and accent colors, six languages and sound settings.
  8. Hands-free: talk with your earbud or headset button, Siri, Spotlight, the Shortcuts app, the Action button and Home Screen quick actions, and Pause music while someone talks or while you talk.
  9. Support: crash reports (off until you choose), Send logs and small one-time tips.
  10. Screen: with Keep the screen on in a room on, the screen stays awake in a room for an hour after your last touch or talk, then it may sleep. A touch brings it back.
The native KeyUp iPhone app on the Talk tab, ready to talk.
Talk, in the iPhone app.
The native KeyUp iPhone app showing your rooms and Spaces.
Rooms and Spaces.
The native KeyUp iPhone app showing a direct message with call history.
Direct messages and calls.
The native KeyUp iPhone app during a private call.
Private calls.

What the iPhone app can’t do at first

iPhone

  1. It works while it is open. It leaves the room when you lock the phone or switch apps, so it can’t talk or listen in the background. It won’t ring or alert you while KeyUp is closed or the phone is locked. That needs Apple push, which comes later.
  2. On iPhone, calls for help and calls reach you only while KeyUp is open, until the native notifications arrive.
  3. No volume-key talk. iOS doesn’t let apps use the volume keys to talk. Use the on-screen button.
  4. The headset button works only while KeyUp is on screen, and the shortcuts open KeyUp first. No widget and no lock screen talk yet.

Still stuck? Email [email protected]. Tell us your phone and watch model and what you tried.